Classical‚ Behavioural‚ Quantitative and now the Modern Approach to Management. The Modern Approach states that there is no one good way of management. A successful organization utilizes all the types of management. A good example of this is the movie Lean on Me‚ starring Morgan Freeman as Joe Clark‚ the protagonist of the movie. Joe is a very talented teacher‚ who takes a lot of pride in his work‚ but due to certain events (budget cuts)‚ he has to make some very key decisions upon his future at East Side
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Ohno Don’t Lean on Me! A partial Biography on Taiichi Ohno and the Lean System Topics of Discussion: -Transportation and Unecessary Inventory -Underutilization of Employees -Defects -Excess Motion -Overprocessing
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Chan ges in Does X Really Cause Y? By Bryan Dowd and Robert Town September 2002 AcademyHealth is the national program office for HCFO‚ an initiative of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Foreword Health policy issues often dominate state and federal policymakers’ agendas. In the most recent session of the United States Congress alone‚ the House and Senate addressed legislation concerning a patients’ bill of rights‚ prescription drugs for seniors‚ and generic drug substitution
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In "Lean on Me" Morgan Freeman plays the role of a high school principal with a policeman mentality and vigilante behavior who is hired to reinstall order and education in the drug-infested Eastside high school in New Jersey in 1987. Mr. Joe Clark‚ magnificently played by Freeman‚ first takes control via discipline and then by instilling hope. Wearing heroic white through the whole length of the movie he one-sidedly expels all of the instigators and the problem-causing students as his first official
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Lean on me is a good film especially for school administrators and people who are thinking of becoming an administrator some day. It gives us a lot of insight in handling different challenges faced by administrators. There were a couple of interesting points that struck me while watching the movie. I especially liked the line at the start of the movie "Discipline is not the enemy of enthusiasm". This line is very true. It doesn’t mean that when discipline is established in school‚ the students
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Organizational Theory Professor Elmer P. Nacua July 20‚ 2013 LEARNING INSIGHTS ON THEORY X / Y / Z AND MASLOW’S HEIRARCHY OF NEEDS McGregor’s Theory X / Y and William Ouichi’s Theory Z I can say that Theory X presents the pessimistic view of employees’ nature and behaviour at work‚ while Theory Y presents the optimistic view. With reference to Maslow’s theory‚ Theory X is based on the assumption that the employees emphasize on the physiological needs and the safety needs; while Theory Y is based on
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THE MAJORITY INFORMATION FOUND HERE ARE NOT MY OWN WORDS. THIS PAPER WAS DONE FOR THE PURPOSE OF AN ASSIGNMENT. NO PROFIT WAS PLANNED TO BE MADE FROM THIS. ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT (ES24) Assignment The Hawthorne Studies Douglas McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs The Hawthorne Studies Hawthorne Studies The Hawthorne Studies are experiments which inspired Elton Mayo and others to develop the Human Relations Movement. These were conducted by the Western Electric
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psychologist formulated a theory that has changed the path of management thinking and practice. He proposed two sets of assumptions about employee ’s attitude and behaviour‚ so the manager will be in a better position to manage the workers and achieve organizational goals. McGregor named these assumptions as Theory X and Theory This essay would examine the pros and cons of this theory of employee motivation‚ followed by writer ’s opinion. (McGregor‚ 1960) Theory X: According to Theory X‚ Managers assume
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“Theory X and Theory Y” of Douglas McGregor : McGregor‚ in his book “The Human side of Enterprise” states that people inside the organization can be managed in two ways. The first is basically negative‚ which falls under the category X and the other is basically positive‚ which falls under the category Y. After viewing the way in which the manager dealt with employees‚ McGregor concluded that a manager’s view of the nature of human beings is based on a certain grouping of assumptions and that he
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2‚000 2‚100 2‚200 1.60 1.00 0.07 0.05 Asset X Value Beginning 20‚000 22‚000 21‚000 24‚000 22‚000 23‚000 26‚000 25‚000 24‚000 27‚000 Ending 22‚000 21‚000 24‚000 22‚000 23‚000 26‚000 25‚000 24‚000 27‚000 30‚000 Beta (X) Beta (Y) Risk Free Rate EMPR a. Calculate the annual rate of return for each asset in each of the 10 preceding years‚ and use those v the average annual return for each asset over the 10-year period. Return (X) Return (Y) 15.00% 2.27% 20.95% -1.25% 13.18% 20.00% 2.69% 4
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